Grant Guidelines

If you are inter­est­ed in apply­ing for a grant from the Auen Foun­da­tion, please send a two page let­ter, along with a copy of your 501( c )( 3 ) cer­tifi­cate, briefly describ­ing what your orga­ni­za­tion does, the pro­grams offered, the amount of grant sup­port you are seek­ing, and who the fund­ing will impact. Please also send a list of your cur­rent board mem­bers and oth­er fun­ders. The foun­da­tion Grant Com­mit­tee meets quar­ter­ly to eval­u­ate requests for fund­ing pro­grams. If the ini­tial review of your let­ter indi­cates a poten­tial match for the Auen Foun­da­tion, we will request more infor­ma­tion, such as a for­mal pro­pos­al, copy of your finan­cials, and pos­si­bly a site vis­it.

Grants

To be con­sid­ered for a grant, please com­plete the fol­low­ing grant appli­ca­tion. There are two sec­tions to this appli­ca­tion. Each sec­tion must be com­plet­ed sep­a­rate­ly and the total appli­ca­tion should be kept to a com­bined max­i­mum of 10 pages (exclud­ing attach­ments).

Sec­tion One — Agency Back­ground

Con­tact Infor­ma­tion

Date of Sub­mis­sion

Name of Orga­ni­za­tion

Address, phone num­ber, fax num­ber, e-mail address

Name and title of per­son sub­mit­ting the appli­ca­tion

Agency His­to­ry

The mis­sion of the orga­ni­za­tion.

Pri­ma­ry areas or focus.

Brief his­to­ry of why the orga­ni­za­tion was found­ed.

How many peo­ple ben­e­fit from the organization’s ser­vices per year?